Meyer



(No Model.)

0. H. MASOHMEYER.

HANDLE.

Patented Nov 8, 1892.

UNTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MASCHMEYER, F HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HARTFORD SILVER PLATE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming paid: of Letters Patent No. 485,846, dated November 8, 1892.

Application filed April 13, 1892- fierial No. 429,006. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: mayof course be integral with the disks, but Be it known that I, CHARLES H. MAsCH- preferably are made of a separate piece of MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residcheaper material, and are roughened, corruing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford gated, threaded,or made with a varying cross- 5 and State of Connecticut, have invented cersectionaldiameter, so that the metalwill more tain new and useful Improvements in Hanfirmly grasp and hold to the insulator and dlcs, of which the following is a full, clear, prevent the sections from pulling apart. and exact specification. In the process of manufacture the disks are The 1nvention relates to the handles of tea, slipped upon the roughened stems and these I coffee, or other pots, Water-vessels, and simiinsulators placed in a suitable mold and the lar receptacles for containing hot or boiling sections cast about them, so that the metal liquids, deooctions, or beverages that are proflows closely against the disks and tightly fits vided with an insulation to prevent the transor fills into the roughenings of the stems, so fercnce of heat from the vessel to the handle, that the sections cannot be pulled from them. 5 the object being to provide a simple and cheap Of course, if desired, the grasping or hand sechandle for this purpose which will be firmly tion of the handle may also he formed in other and lastingly constructed and insure complete sections, the solid sections a being cast around insulation, the construction being more mm the insulator-stems and the hollow section b ticularly intended for pots with handles brazed, soldered, or otherwise afterward se- 20 formed from soft metal. cured to the sections connected to the insu- Referring to the accompanying drawings, lators. Figure 1 is a side view of a pot with one of The sections of this handle are firmly sethe improved handles. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cured together, so that they cannot be pulled section of a handle, and Fig. 3 is a face view apart nor work loose by the stretching of the 5 of an insulator. metal, without any fine work. There are no In the views, 1 indicates a tea, coffee, or holes to be bored for fastening-pins, which re other pot. or Vessel, formed to shape by any quire careful fitting to insure a tight handle mode commonly employed for such hollow and to prevent the insulator from cracking. ware, in which liquid that is hot or is to be There is sufficient metal about the insulator 8o 3 heated is poured. The handle 2 is formed to prevent its stretching and working loose, aft-er any desired pattern and secured to the and the insulating-disk is not discolored by body of the pot in any common manner, as soldering-oil, acid, or flame by brazing, soldering, or riveting. This han- The completed handle is strong, durable, dle, preferably made of soft metal, as britanornamental, and cheap and the sections are 35 nia, consists of the hand-section 3, which is completely insulated by an ornamental disk grasped by the hand in lifting, the attach mentand can beheld together by a cheaper but just sections 4:, which connect the hand section as non-conducting substance, whic 1 is firmly with the body of the pot, and the insulators embedded in the metal. 5, which join the adjacent ends of the sec- I claim as my invention 0 4 tions. These insulators consist of buttons or 1. A handle for vessels, consisting of ahanddisks 6, of pearl, ivory, bone, vegetable ivory, section, attachment-sections, and insulators orasimilarheat-non-conducting substance or between the adjacent ends of the sections, composition, which completely divide and said insulators having stems with a roughseparate the adjacent ends of the hand-sec ened surface projecting into sockets having 9 5 45 tion and the attachment-sections. Passing complementary roughenings in the ends of through the center of these disks and prothe adjacent sections, substantially as specijecting into sockets of the same size in the fied. respective adjacent ends of the hand and at- 2. A handle for vessels, consisting of ahandtachment sections are rods, stems, or cylinsection, attachment-sections, and insulators too 50 ders 7 of the same or a similar insulating or between the adjacent ends of the sections, heat-non-conducting material. These stems said insulators consisting of roughened stems supporting disks, the roughened stems projecting into complementary roughened sockets in the adjacent ends of the sections, substantially as specified.

A handle for vessels, formed in separate sections of cast metal and pieces of heat-noncondueting material consisting of a disk and indented stem, the metal of the sections being east about the stems, so that the sections are held together by the insulators only,which :0 completely separate metal from metal, substantially as specified.

CHARLES H. MASCHMEYER. Witnesses:

R. P. CHAPMAN, H. R. WILLIAMS. 

